Transport in driven plasmas

Technical Report · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5883969· OSTI ID:5883969

Fisch, N J

A plasma in contact with an external source of power, especially a source that interacts specifically with high-velocity electrons, exhibits transport properties, such as conductivity, different from those of an isolated plasma near thermal equilibrium. This is true even when the bulk of the particles in the driven plasma are near thermal equilibrium. To describe the driven plasma we derive an adjoint equation to the inhomogeneous, linearized, dynamic Boltzmann equation. The Green's functions for a variety of plasma responses can then be generated. It is possible to modify the Chapman-Enskog expansion in order to incorporate the response functions derived here.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• OSTI ID: 5883969
• Report Number(s): PPPL-2203; ON: DE85008714
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
PLASMA
TRANSPORT THEORY
BOLTZMANN EQUATION
EQUILIBRIUM
GREEN FUNCTION
THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS
FUNCTIONS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
700105* - Fusion Energy- Plasma Research- Plasma Kinetics-Theoretical- (-1987)